After 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls, Margaret Qualley has her next lesbian role lined up.
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Qualley, who also starred in the Oscar-winning film The Substance, is once again working with husband-and-wife duo Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke (who is queer) on a new film called Honey Don’t!.
Honey Don’t! stars Qualley as the titular Honey, a gay private investigator who is “investigating a questionable church led by Chris Evans,” per i-D.
Deadline also reported that Emmy Award-nominated actress Aubrey Plaza is also in the film and will play a mysterious woman, as well as Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Billy Eichner (Bros), Gabby Beans (The Skin of Our Teeth), and Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always).
Speaking with i-D, Qualley said the role required her “to be a little more suave than I am, more mysterious. I tend to want to diffuse things before they even happen. [Whereas] Honey, she’s like honey — she’s skillful, she’s smooth, she is slipping in and out undetected.”
Honey Don’t! is a quasi-sequel to 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls, where Qualley starred as a slacker lesbian who goes on a road trip with her best friend, unaware that criminals are chasing them. That film released to mixed reviews, but was praised as being “fun, weird, and exactly the kind of queer movie we need more of” by Out.
Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don’t! are the first two films in a planned Lesbian B-Movie trilogy that Coen and Cooke have.
Qualley says working with the couple is “unlike anything else I’ve ever known” and while she hasn’t been contacted about the planned third film in the trilogy, “let the record show that if I’m not in [the third film], I will be offended and I will be upset,” (via i-D).
Honey Don’t! will be released in theaters sometime in 2025.
